Dr. Madarasz is an international specialist in political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy and international geoeconomic relations. He is the author of six books and editor of ten collected volumes and translations. He has published over eighty essays and book chapters in peer-reviewed academic journals in English, French, and Portuguese over a broad range of questions related to ethics, economics, politics, history, religion, language, and logic. Dr. Madarasz has supervised over forty Masters’ and Ph.D. projects. He has been an invited speaker at a host of leading universities in Brazil, Uruguay, and France, in addition to lecturing in Canada, the United States, and Chile. In addition, Dr. Madarasz has been a frequent contributor to various news outlets, with think pieces on geopolitical and international affairs, BRICS+ and North/South relations. At the undergraduate level, he has been lecturer in the departments of Business Administration, Law, Philosophy, History and Literary Sciences in a host of universities.
Dr. Madarasz studied philosophy as an undergraduate at McGill University, where he graduated with honours in 1986. Thereafter, he studied at the Université Paris I (Sorbonne), Collège international de philosophie and Université Paris VIII (Vincennes à Saint-Denis), at which he earned the French Maîtrise, Diplôme d’études approfondies and, in 1999, the Doctorat (Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury/Ph.D. Summa cum Laude). The latter two were achieved under the supervision of Alain Badiou, one of France’s most celebrated philosophers.
Over his twenty years experience as an academic, Dr. Madarasz was most recently Associate Professor in Political Philosophy and Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul State, in Porto Alegre, Brazil (PUC-RS). From 2009 to 2012, he was director of the Department of Philosophy at Universidade Gama Filho, in Rio de Janeiro, following an invitation to act as Capes foreign visiting fellow in 2005-6. In 2011, he was awarded a Doctor of Literature degree from Monarch Business School Switzerland. In 2014, he acted as visiting scholar at the Universidad de la República (Udelar, Montevideo), and in 2022, Dr. Madarasz was Invited Capes/PrInt Fellow at the Université Paris VIII, where he presented a semester long seminar on Alain Badiou’s philosophical system.